Bain & Company: Building efficient organisations

How do we create an organisation that doesn’t rely on one-off initiatives to become more efficient and keep pace with the competition? How do we lock in hard-fought gains and build capabilities for continual improvement?

Bain & Company 2015 H2

How to outgrow your competitors: Lessons from US brand winners is a good example of
the type of thought leadership that has placed Bain & Company in a top-five position in our
rankings table. An effective subtitle draws the reader in: “In a tough growth environment, one
in five brands consistently performs better than the category average. Here’s what they do
differently.” Based on analysis of secondary data, Bain & Company challenges current thinking:

Bain 2013 H2

It’s really pleasing to see Bain tacking subjects as diverse as gender parity in Australia and India’s
power sector
, because our recent analysis of thought leadership about emerging markets found
it doing much better when it rid itself of its tendency to stick to terra cognita. In fact it topped our

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